Malcolm Cash

Malcolm Cash has a plan for creating leaders.

He's all for black folks honoring past leaders but says maybe we should celebrate less and emulate more.

Toward that end he has started an effort to teach and inspire high-school and college students to become leaders.He's calling it the Katrina Leadership Project, because he says a failure of leadership set the stage for devastation along the Gulf Coast and the slow response that followed.

Cash is an English professor at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, but he's relying on Seattle-area friends to help him launch the program.He was here raising money and organizing last week.

Katrina hit in 2005 as he arrived for a term as scholar-in-residence at Bellevue Community College.Cash and BCC counselor Ron Taplin, who arranged Cash's stint here, spent many Friday evenings discussing political and social issues with students whose enthusiasm impressed the Ohioan.
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Cash came up with a plan, a leadership-training program in which 20 college students will help a group of professors teach 40 high-school students who were harmed by Katrina.
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Cash has tried to choose students who are smart but need a push to achieve more.People like him.

He was an avid reader who did poorly in school.Often he skipped classes and spent his days reading in a library.

Cash dropped out of high school, but a man from the Upward Bound program convinced him he could do better and offered him a hand.

His mentor challenged him to do the same for another student someday.
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Cash helped him see school as preparation for making a difference.
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Cash said black people aren't born to play basketball or excel at music.

It's all about preparation.Somebody has to put a child on a path and teach her the skills she needs to reach her goals.

"If we can learn those things, we can learn leadership," he said.

Malcolm Cash
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Malcolm CashMALCOLM CASH received his B.A from Oberlin College, and a Master of Fine Arts in English and Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh.In July 2005 he published "Sweet Home: A Memoir."The book is a literary portrait of his family's North American slave experiences, migration north and life during the Civil Rights Era.

Cash is presently professor of English at Lorain County Community College, and an ordained minister at Full Gospel Ministries (Lorain, Ohio).He is embarked upon a vocation of teaching, ministry and writing.
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Cash is also a public speaker, educational consultant and mentor to student leaders, writers, and future educators.

At Sunday's Lorain's Toni Morrison: A Film and Book Discussion, Lorain County Community College professor Malcolm Cash discusses Morrison's latest book (about a guy who's into kinky sex, rape, and pedophilia) and screens a film about the Lorain-born author.

English professor Malcolm Cash is working to raise awareness in young minority women on the importance of a college education and the opportunities that are right here on our campus.

Yesterday's two hour ceremony included comments from the Lorain County commissioners, Mayor Craig Foltin, Lorain County Urban League President Fred Wright, Lorain County Community College professor Malcolm Cash and Miss America 1963 Jackie Mayer.

Malcolm Cash, a professor at Lorain County Community College, said it was important to see several school-age children in the audience at the forum.

"They are our future and they didn't have to be here," Cash said.

Cash offered the city some suggestions, including a youth task force with no adults, a school leadership forum, volunteer groups of men to walk the streets at night, unarmed, to deter crime and an attitude to change "at risk" to "at promise."

Malcolm Cash named BCC scholar in residence

Author and multicultural expert Malcolm Cash has joined the Bellevue Community College faculty as scholar in residence for the current quarter.Cash, who teaches English and creative writing at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, will teach a course titled "Race in the United States" and will assist in the college's efforts to retain students, especially minorities.